This is the hardest part of hybridizing-being critical and tossing nice plants-they offer nothing new even thought they may be pretty.
Ready for compost.
looks like a good bloomer.
oh my such a pretty plant to be tossed. i am crying for it. i never can toss anything. i usually take others stuff they dont want just to keep it from being tossed. i am such a softie,
Boy oh boy, it offers ME something new. I still, after much wishing and hoping, don't have a Brug. But I will, I will. I have a new place with nearly 1/2 acre to grow things on. And you can bet I'll have as many Brugs as possible. I'd start with cuttings from your tossed one, no problem.
Oh I know Barb, I was tagging plants to be tossed today in my plots. Too expensive to keep them alive. They also take too much time to water. I spend 2 hours watering them at least every 3 days. And that is after 1 hr of watering at my 2nd growing area. Then I rush home and water more. We get no rain all summer, so this is day in day out. I am so glad I have the best day dreams. And then there is all the time for fertilizing, grooming etc.
Goodbye Barb's white. Into the great blue yonder.
Nice looking brug Barb .
It can be hard at times to do the right thing , as a conscientious brug breeder.
One less look alike to contend with.
chop=chop= chop ........... lol
Maybe not to take cuttings from, or overwinter for next year, but I could not destroy a beautiful thing whose fulfilling its genetic purpose. And for this one, being a duplicate of something lovely is it's destiny - i say enjoy it for itself
does it need a new home??? i am pathetic i know buts its too pretty to throw in the trash pile. uggh crying for the pretty brug
shh dont tell hubby i am tryingto save another plant.
I and other hybridizers must destroy brugs that are similar or just plain and nothing special. If you don't do that then the named varieties get lost in the sea of look-a-likes. It also weeds out weaker plants or ones that have undesirable traits. If I had one I thought was very similar to another already named but it had larger flowers or was fragrant and the original was not then I might consider keeping it. When a flower is pollinated, you may end up with 100 seeds. After growing all of them out only a small fraction, if any, are kept from that one pod. You would be luck to find a good and new variety. White is the most common reoccurring color. All of the whites I have lined up for the compost are similar to those already marketed or are in collections. I do not even give them to close friends.
You don't give them away? I'd love to take them off your hands.
i have been trying Teresa but he said no and thats okay too even though i hate to see such a pretty white go to the trash.
I like to think of it as Brug Heaven - no mites, no cats, no SB...ideal temps and water!!!
Is that why there are so my bearded iris cultivars that looks almost identical? maybe no one culled them out ?
Seedlings have no sense, no name, and accept what comes. I still have a hard time with destroying them, but it's easier than destroying a named plant. I've moved several to river banks and local ponds, but don't visit to see how they did.
Others I let live or die over winter in the ground. Most died, but several are putting on buds now. They can redeem themselves yet, if they choose to express the right genes If not, I may put a sign in the space they occupied that says "gone fishing" ;)
Thanks anyway. I appreciate your quick response.
Teresa, I know it sound mean not to give them away but it is the only way to control the hybrids.
Charolleta, And yes, that is why there are so many look alike iris and daylilies. Many time growers give anything that produces a plant a name. There is some of that going on in the brug world.
Pollygarden, if we had to let every plant grow out to its genetic potential, we would not be able to get rid of weeds.
Carol, I am with you- a brug heaven-That is what I am looking for-no mites, beautiful brugs and lots of water. LOL
I was referring only to that pictured plant that was blooming so beautifully - to let it display what it had to offer and let that be appreciated as a lovely Brug, but not to take cuttings or overwinter it.
I understand about disposing of lookalikes, but loving the beauty of a gorgeous Brug in bloom should not be lost in our efforts to create the new and different.
Beautiful!
:) Donna